People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

The constant in my films is love stories. I consider love the chief business of humanity.

If you want to kill someone, you'd better pull off a perfect crime. Our security lies in the fact that that's damnably hard to do.

The perfect crime is when you push someone to suicide. I once read a study that said everyone in the course of their life has thought of killing someone.

I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.

Cinema is dominated by stars you like from the get go.